When Anson Dorrance was inducted into
the National Soccer Hall of Fame on August 2, 2008, it marked one more
milestone moment in the career of a man whose coaching prowess became legendary
at a young age. Because Dorrance has not
yet retired from his coaching career, he was only eligible for election on the
"Builders of the Game" ballot and he won election to the Hall of Fame in his
first year of eligibility on that ballot.

Like fine wine - with age - the
coaching career of Anson Dorrance only gets better. Dorrance proved that again in 2009 as he led
his team successfully through one of the most competitive College Cup fields in
history as the University of North Carolina won its 21st overall national title
and its 20th NCAA crown.
Dorrance thus became the first coach in NCAA history to win 20
championships coaching a single sport.

Head coach of the North Carolina
women's soccer program since its inception in 1979, Dorrance has built and
guided a well-oiled winning machine.
Under his direction, the Tar Heels have collected national and
conference championships at a stupendous rate, compiled an overall record
staggering in its numerical verity, established records likely never to be
approached and procured the esteem befitting a dynasty.

At an institution familiar with such
incomparable achievement, especially with regard to its storied basketball
program, it might be possible to think that Dorrance's accomplishments could
somehow fade to the background. But what
he has done in Chapel Hill is simply impossible to disregard.

Thus, when an expert panel employed
by ESPN announced its list of the Best Coaches of the Past Quarter Century on
July 28, 2004 - coincidentally headed at the No. 1 spot by legendary Carolina
basketball coach Dean Smith - it came as no big surprise that another deserving
Tar Heel mentor made the list.

That Dorrance, who was ranked No. 24
on the list, was one of only two coaches in the prestigious collection to coach
an Olympic sport on the collegiate level only speaks louder about his recognized
greatness.

More accolades were bestowed on
Dorrance with his induction into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame on May
19, 2005 and to the National Soccer Hall of Fame on August 2, 2008. He earned those honors while still in the
prime of his coaching career, further testament to his ongoing legacy.

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Fitting Accolades From Basketball's
Winningest Coach

It is said that greatness recognizes
greatness.

Perhaps there is no better example of
that than the quote Dean Smith gave Football News Magazine in 1997. Smith was asked by Football News about
Carolina's preseason No. 1 ranking in football and what it was like for some
sport other than basketball to be ranked No. 1.

Coach Smith's reply? "This is a women's soccer school. We're just trying to keep up with them." Coach Smith's clever retort was his way to
give Dorrance his due.

From the person who was then the
winningest head coach of all-time in one sport to the winningest head coach of
all-time in another sport, the comment struck Dorrance as the ultimate
honor. As Dorrance has said, "So much of
what we have tried to do in our program is modeled after what Dean Smith has
done and accomplished. To have our
program compared favorably to his by the man himself is enormously humbling."

Similarly, Dorrance's immense loyalty
to Carolina mirrors the loyalty Smith possessed for his adopted school. In 1994, when Dorrance decided not to
continue his duties as the head coach of the U.S. Women's National Team, the
choice perplexed many.

Some thought he relinquished the
honor in order to avoid the pressure that comes with being the leader of what
was then the defending World Cup championship squad. But Dorrance's decision had everything to do
with allegiance to his alma mater.

The glory that came with coaching the
U.S. to the championship in the first-ever Women's World Cup in 1991 was not
enough to pull Dorrance away from his true professional love - working
full-time with the Tar Heels. He wanted
to increase the level of excellence that soccer fans had come to expect from
the record-shattering program he had molded.
To do that Dorrance knew he would have to dedicate all of his coaching
energy to the University. With more
elite-level players emerging from high school and club teams than ever before,
the playing field in the college game was leveling out; Dorrance knew that for
UNC to remain at the top, he would have to throw himself into the process with
renewed vigor.

"College programs like ours require a
lot of work," says Dorrance. "At that
point in time we had been surviving by just doing the minimum amount of work.
We certainly couldn't continue to be successful by doing just the minimum. We needed the extra time to stay competitive
in an increasingly tough college game."

A prime example of what Dorrance
meant about a leveling playing field is the fact UNC has captured "only" six of
the past 14 NCAA championships from 1998-2011 when compared to the era from
1982 through 1997 when Carolina dominated the competition, winning 14 of 16
titles. Despite the improved nature of the
competition, UNC's 21 all-time titles still dominate the second-highest total -
three by Notre Dame. There is only one
other school - Portland - which has joined UNC and Notre Dame as multiple
national champion winners.

Simply Staggering Numbers

It is difficult to comprehend
Dorrance taking Carolina's women's program to any greater heights than what it
has already achieved. Yet, for a program
consumed with striving for excellence, a national championship every season
remains the goal.

It is this relentless attitude that
has helped the Tar Heels win a mind-blowing 21 of the 31 national championships
that have been decided in the history of collegiate women's soccer. Only two other schools in the country have
won as many as two titles - Portland in 2002 and 2005 and Notre Dame in 1995,
2004 and 2010. Five other schools have
won one each - George Mason (1985), Florida (1998), Santa Clara (2001), USC
(2007) and Stanford (2011).

Carolina has also captured 20 of the
24 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championships since the sport was given
title status by the league in 1988.
Carolina's all-time record in ACC Tournament play is 58-1-4 and the
first loss did not come until 2012. UNC also
won the initial 1987 ACC title when it was held in a round-robin format at the
end of the regular season to determine the champion.

All told, the Tar Heels are 728-44-26
in the 33-year history of the program, a winning percentage of .929.

When Carolina decided to make women's
soccer a varsity sport in 1979, Dorrance became a two-sport head coach as he
was already in his third year coaching the men's team at Carolina. Dorrance's brilliance at coaching women manifested
itself almost immediately as it took just three years before the Tar Heels won
a national championship, capturing the 1981 Association for Intercollegiate
Athletics for Women (AIAW) national title. Beginning with that championship,
the Tar Heels have won 67.7 percent of the titles ever decided in the sport.

Carolina went on to claim three
national titles in a row after the NCAA began sponsorship of the sport in the
fall of 1982. UNC netted NCAA championship game wins in 1982 over UCF, in 1983
over George Mason and in 1984 over Connecticut.
The Tar Heels made it to the NCAA title game in 1985, but lost to George
Mason 2-0 on the Patriots' home field - the first of only eight losses in
NCAA Tournament play for Carolina to go along with 108 wins and two ties.

A String of Nine Straight Championships

That loss to George Mason,
remarkably, was the last time the Tar Heels lost any game in the decade of the
1980s. Beginning with the season opener
in 1986 and continuing into the 1990 season, Dorrance's Tar Heels won 97 games
and tied six matches over a stretch of 103 contests.

In 1986, Carolina defeated Colorado
College 2-0 in the finals at Fairfax, Va.
A year later, the Tar Heels downed Massachusetts 1-0 on the Minutewomen's
home field in the title game. The 1988
campaign saw the Tar Heels defeat NC State 4-1 in the title game in Chapel
Hill. A year later, Carolina defeated
Colorado College 2-0 in the championship contest at Raleigh, N.C.

During this era, the ACC also began
championship competition with UNC winning the inaugural title in 1987 in a
round robin format. NC State claimed the
1988 title on a penalty kick shootout against the Tar Heels but Carolina
regained the title in 1989 and has won all but three conference tournament
championships since then.

Connecticut snapped a 103-match UNC
unbeaten streak that had started in 1986 by defeating the Tar Heels 3-2 in
overtime at Storrs, Conn. on September 22, 1990. The Tar Heels rebounded from that lone defeat
to win their fifth straight NCAA crown in 1990, avenging the only blemish on
their season by beating the Huskies in the final game 6-0 in Chapel Hill.

Tackling The Challenge of the
National Team

Along the way, Dorrance's love of a
challenge prompted him to take the coaching job for the U.S. Women's National
Team just a year into its existence in 1986.
In a short time, Dorrance took the National Team to the vertex of the
world's most popular sport. On November
30, 1991, Dorrance led the U.S. to a 2-1 win over Norway to claim the initial
World Cup championship. The win came
just six days after assistant coach Bill Palladino, acting as interim head
coach, led UNC to a 3-1 NCAA title game win over Wisconsin for Carolina's sixth
NCAA title in a row.

Dorrance was the architect of the
World Cup triumph, a win tinged with a Carolina Blue hue. Not only was Dorrance coaching the U.S. team,
but nine of the 18 players competed collegiately at North Carolina and his
assistant coach was former UNC player Lauren Gregg.

The next year, Dorrance assembled
what many soccer observers have labeled the best college soccer team in
history. That edition of the Tar Heels
finished the season undefeated (25-0), claimed the ACC championship for the
fourth straight year and won the NCAA title for the seventh consecutive
time. Carolina's 9-1 NCAA championship
game victory over Duke was as thorough as the final score would lead one to
believe and was a nonpareil way for the Heels to finish the year.

In 1993, UNC won the NCAA
championship with an unsullied record of 23-0.
The Tar Heels whitewashed George Mason 6-0 before what was then a
collegiate women's soccer record crowd of 5,721 fans at Fetzer Field. Mia Hamm capped her brilliant career at
Carolina that day and went on to win unanimous national player of the year
honors for the second year in a row.

92 Wins in a Row

Amongst all the coaching jobs that
Dorrance has done during his career, the one that culminated in the 1994 NCAA
championship might be the most impressive.
Dorrance was able to rally the Tar Heels after arch-rival Duke ended a
101-game unbeaten streak by beating Carolina 3-2 on October 19, 1994. The loss came 17 days after Notre Dame had
snapped a 92-game Carolina winning streak by playing the Heels to a scoreless
tie.

UNC ran the table after the loss to
Duke and NCAA Tournament wins over NC State, Duke, Connecticut and Notre Dame
added a 13th national title to Dorrance's coaching resume. Tar Heel midfielder Tisha Venturini was
selected as the 1994 National Player of the Year, marking the seventh straight
season in which the national player of the year came from the ranks of Carolina
players.

The 1994 season presaged a sea change
in the college game. With the
proliferation of available talent and the vast increase in the number of
college programs, parity was quickly becoming a part of the women's game. While the Tar Heels still led the way in
terms of consistent excellence, one of the big news stories of 1995 was the
fact Carolina failed to win the national title in women's soccer for the first
time in 10 years. The Tar Heels, seeded
No. 1 in the NCAA bracket with a 25-0 mark, were upset by Notre Dame 1-0 in the
1995 NCAA semifinals.

Relinquishing the title to Notre Dame
in 1995 only fueled the team's competitive fire the next season. Dorrance took a team that returned nine starters
and molded it into another victorious unit by season's end. In the ninth game of the season, Notre Dame
defeated the Tar Heels 2-1 in overtime and became the first college team to
beat UNC in successive meetings.
Carolina regrouped and the Tar Heels whipped William & Mary, James
Madison and Florida in the opening three rounds of the NCAA tourney before
defeating Santa Clara 2-1 on its home field in the semifinals. Two days later UNC proved it was still at the
acme of women's college soccer, beating defending champion Notre Dame 1-0 in
overtime to claim the 1996 crown.

A Dynamite Defense in 1997

Dorrance turned in another
magnificent coaching job as the Tar Heels wound up in the winner's circle again
in 1997. Honored by Soccer Buzz and
Soccer Times as the national coach of the year, Dorrance spearheaded a Carolina
campaign that resulted in a 27-0-1 record.
The 27 victories were an NCAA record and UNC tied its own NCAA record by
shutting out 22 opponents during the campaign.

After seeing the 1998 NCAA title
elude the Tar Heels, Carolina fans were able to find solace in the performance
of the U.S. team, which competed in the 1999 Women's World Cup. The 20-person roster featured eight Tar Heel
players - Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, Carla Overbeck, Cindy Parlow, Tisha
Venturini, Tracy Noonan, Lorrie Fair and Tiffany Roberts - and UNC alumna
Lauren Gregg as a U.S. assistant coach.
The Tar Heel-laden composition of the World Cup Team, which reclaimed
the championship it had relinquished in 1995, once again stood as a testament
to the indelible contributions Dorrance had made to U.S. soccer prominence.

Back-To-Back National Championships

Basking in the glow of a World Cup
title featuring so many ties to the program, Carolina's collegiate dominance
seemed to be in doubt when just eight games into the 1999 season the Tar Heels
sported a 6-2 record. The two losses
were the most in a season since 1985.
But Dorrance led Carolina to 18 wins in a row and another NCAA
championship. Lorrie Fair earned
national player of the year accolades, but in many regards the 1999 team was a
squad without star presence, just incredible unity of purpose.

A year later, the 2000 Carolina team
suffered the program's most losses in a season in 20 years but again won ACC
and NCAA titles. Three times in six NCAA
Tournament games, Carolina trailed its opponent 1-0 midway through the second
half. All three times, the Tar Heels
came from behind to win 2-1 in regulation time en route to another national
title.

After a two-year hiatus from the
awards stand, UNC reclaimed the NCAA title in 2003 with its most dominant team
in a decade. Carolina became the first
team since the Tar Heels of 1993 to go undefeated and untied, finishing with a
perfect 27-0 mark in winning its 15th straight ACC title and its 18th national
championship. Led by co-national players
of the year Lindsay Tarpley and Catherine Reddick, Carolina outscored its
opponents 132-11, including an amazing 32-0 margin in six NCAA Tournament
matches.

In 2006 Dorrance turned in one of the
best coaching jobs of his career in piloting UNC to its 19th national
championship. He was the unanimous
choice as the national coach of the year after leading Carolina to a 27-1
balance sheet. The Tar Heels
accomplished these heroics while starting six freshmen for most of the season. In fact, seven freshmen took the field for
the start of the second half of UNC's 2-1 NCAA championship game win over Notre
Dame. It was a team which lost its
season opener at Texas A&M, its first setback in a lidlifter since 1983,
and then stormed back to win 27 matches in succession.

In 2008, UNC captured its 20th
national championship with a team that started 4-1-1 but went 21-0-1 in its
final 22 matches. Led by national player
of the year Casey Nogueira, who led the nation in scoring with 25 goals,
Carolina defeated two undefeated teams in the College Cup, beating UCLA 1-0 and
Notre Dame 2-1, to win the NCAA title.
Nogueira scored two second-half goals to rally UNC past the Fighting
Irish in the final game.

A year later, the Tar Heels turned in
one of the best defensive efforts in school history en route to a 21st
national crown. Senior defender Whitney
Engen was a National Player of the Year honoree and the defensive MVP of the
ACC and she led a team that allowed only 12 goals and posted 19 shutouts.
Carolina allowed only two goals in the final 11 games of the season as the Tar
Heels rallied to win the ACC Tournament hardware over Florida State 3-0 and the
NCAA Tournament title over Stanford 1-0.

Dorrance's Start In Coaching

Ironically, Dorrance's career plans
did not originally include coaching a women's team. He began his coaching career at Carolina as
the designated head coach for the men's team in 1976 during Marvin Allen's last
year as head coach. He took over as
men's coach the following year and served for 12 years in that role, posting a
172-65-21 record. His team won the ACC
Tournament championship in 1987. He took
the Tar Heels to the 1987 NCAA College Cup semifinals and the second round of
the 1988 NCAA Tournament. Dorrance's
.708 winning percentage is tops among Carolina's men's soccer coaches all-time
and his 172 wins rank third in school history behind Elmar Bolowich, whom
Dorrance brought to Carolina as an assistant men's coach in 1987, and Dr.
Marvin Allen, the founder of the program in 1947, and the man who coached
Dorrance at Carolina.

Since being named the women's head
coach in 1979, Carolina has a 728-44-26 record under Dorrance and only six
times in 33 years have the Tar Heels lost more than two games in a single
season. The Tar Heels' 20 NCAA crowns
are more than any other women's NCAA Division I sports program in the history
(Stanford women's tennis is second with 16), and the 21 national championships
overall are more than any single sports program in ACC history, men's or
women's.

A Host of National Players of the
Year

Over the years, 17 different Tar
Heels have been named national players of the year under Dorrance's direction -
April Heinrichs in 1984 and 1986, Shannon Higgins in 1988 and 1989, Kristine
Lilly in 1990 and 1991, Mia Hamm in 1992 and 1993, Tisha Venturini in 1994, Debbie
Keller in 1995 and 1996, Staci Wilson in 1995, Cindy Parlow in 1996, 1997 and
1998, Robin Confer in 1997, Lorrie Fair in 1999, Meredith Florance in 2000,
Lindsay Tarpley in 2003, Catherine Reddick in 2003, Heather O'Reilly in 2006,
Yael Averbuch in 2006, Casey Nogueira in 2008 and Whitney Engen in 2009.

North Carolina begins the 2012 season
with a 308-17-8 all-time home record. In
the program's 33-year history, totaling 798 games, Carolina has shut out
opponents 512 times and has been held scoreless in just 30 games.

Coach of the Year Honors Galore

Dorrance has been named national
coach of the year for coaching both women and men. He earned women's national honors in 1982,
1986, 1997, 2000, 2003 and 2006 and he was named men's national coach of the
year in 1987.

Dorrance has been named the Southeast
Region coach of the year in 1989, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2006 and 2008. In 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1996, 2001, 2003,
2004, 2006 and 2008, he was named the ACC Women's Soccer Coach of the Year.

In 1996, Dorrance received the
highest honor possible from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America
when he won the Walt Chyzowych Award for lifetime coaching achievement. In 2007, he won the Bill Jeffrey Award from
the NSCAA for raising intercollegiate soccer to new heights through his
long-term dedication to the game. In
2011, the NSCAA accorded him its prestigious NSCAA Honor Award.

Honors from His Peers at Carolina
& Beyond

Dorrance was inducted into the Order
of the Golden Fleece in 1988, Carolina's highest honorary society which
includes Carolina students, faculty and staff.

In 1994, Dorrance added another
cherished honor when the athletic department designated him a "Priceless
Gem." This honor is reserved only for
those individuals who have contributed in extraordinary ways to the successful
athletic climate at the University.

In 1995, Dorrance's program was
profiled in a full-length documentary film entitled, "Dynasty." The movie focused in particular on the Tar
Heels' amazing nine-year national championship run from 1986 through 1994, and
it included in-depth interviews with both current and former Tar Heel
players. Another documentary about the
UNC program, "Winning Isn't Everything," was released in DVD format following the
2007 season.

In the fall of 2003, Sports
Illustrated On Campus magazine named UNC's women's soccer program as the
greatest college dynasty of all-time.

Dorrance has also coauthored two
books. He combined with Tim Nash to
write "Training Soccer Champions" in 1996.
It sold out in its first printing and did equally well in its second
press run. Dorrance also co-authored the
award-winning "The Vision of a Champion" with Gloria Averbuch. It was published in 2003 and almost
immediately went to second and third printings.
In 2006, "The Man Watching" by former Sports Illustrated writer Tim
Crothers debuted to smashing reviews and amazing sales success.

Following the U.S. victory in the
Women's World Cup in 1991, Dorrance received an Honorary All-America Award, one
of the most prestigious of its kind, from the NSCAA.

In 1991, Soccer America named
Dorrance one of the 20 most influential men in American soccer during the
previous two decades. Soccer America
followed that up in 1995 by naming Dorrance as one of the 25 most influential
people in the history of American soccer.
Dorrance was one of only three coaches on that list and the only women's
coach tapped.

In 2002, Dorrance was selected for
the North Carolina Soccer Hall of Fame, joining his mentor, Dr. Marvin Allen,
who was in the initial class inducted into the Hall.

Dorrance In His College Years

A 1974 University of North Carolina
graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and philosophy, Dorrance
originally enrolled at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, where he
spent one semester studying and playing soccer. He then transferred to Carolina
to play for Marvin Allen.

Dorrance's natural gifts on the pitch
led to his selection to the All-ACC Team three times as an undergraduate and he
won All-South Region honors in 1973. He
was named in 2002 as one of the Top 50 men's soccer players in ACC
history. He was also one of the top
intramural sports performers on the Carolina campus during his days as an
undergraduate.

After graduation, he organized youth
soccer leagues in both Connecticut and North Carolina. He was the founder of both the North Carolina
Youth Soccer Association and the North Carolina Senior Soccer Association.

Dorrance has an "A" level coaching
license from the U.S. Soccer Federation.
He was a charter member of the NCAA Women's Soccer Committee and he also
served as the women's chairman of the Intercollegiate Soccer Association of
America. He is the former chairman of
the NCAA Men's and Women's Soccer Rules Committee and one of the few coaches in
the country to qualify as a national staff coach for the U.S. Soccer Federation
and the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. He formerly was involved in training coaches
and awarding coaching licenses as part of the NSCAA Coaching Academy. In the summer of 2003, he was named to the
Board of Directors of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.

Dorrance's summer soccer camps for
women are the most popular in the nation.
The camps sell out well in advance.
Dorrance has even hosted a version of the famous camp in England.

Dorrance also made a seamless
transition to his role as the color analyst on the WUSA Game of the Week on
Saturday afternoons as shown on PAX TV from 2001-03.

The Dorrance Family

Dorrance was born on April 9, 1951,
in Bombay, India, and he is married to M'Liss Gary Dorrance. The couple celebrated their 38th wedding anniversary
in August 2012.

M'Liss is a former professional
ballet dancer who teaches at the Ballet School of Chapel Hill, which she
cofounded in 1980. She was retired in
2007 from Duke University where she taught and served the Dance Program for 32
years. When M'Liss is not watching soccer
games on the weekends she is rehearsing her choreography for Chapel Hill Dance
Theatre productions.

The Dorrances have three children.

Michelle, a graduate of New York
University, is an internationally renowned rhythm tap dancer residing in New
York City where she is on the faculty at Broadway Dance Center. Michelle was featured in the cover article of
the March 2008 issue of Dance Magazine and on the cover of Dance Teacher
magazine in 2012. She also performed for four years in STOMP, NYC, the
off-Broadway hit, following a year in the national tour production. Michelle won a 2012 New York Dance and
Theater Award, better known as the "Bessie", for "Outstanding Production of a work that stretches the boundaries
of a traditional or culturally specific form."
Most recently, she was named one of the recipients of a 2012 Princess
Grace Award for Choreography.

Natalie, a UNC graduate, is currently
on leave from the Greensboro public schools.
She and attorney husband David Harris, a UNC law school graduate, are
the proud parents of Finley Dorrance Harris.
The Dorrance family's first grandchild was born in April 2009.

Donovan, a 2009 graduate of Chapel
Hill High School, is a senior at Carolina and continues to pursue interests in
philosophy and music.

Dorrance's soccer origins stem from
his youth when he lived overseas. He
resided in India, Kenya, Ethiopia, Singapore, Belgium and Switzerland while
growing up. His family moved all around
the world following his father's assignments as an international
businessman. Additional members of the
Dorrance Clan residing in Chapel Hill include Anson's mother, Peggy, and his
brother Pete, a co-owner of six prominent Triangle area restaurants, and Pete's
wife Dolly Hunter, a former UNC head field hockey and softball coach. All are avid fans of the UNC women's soccer
team.

Years indicated are final season of
play at UNC;positions listed are those
played on their respective national teams.

Carolina’s Influences On The Game

• Current and former UNC players have
been staples on World Cup rosters as both players and coaches.The 1991 U.S. World Cup roster featured nine
players and two coaches; the 1995 U.S. World Cup roster featured seven players
and two coaches; the 1999 U.S. World Cup roster featured eight players and one
coach; the 2003 U.S. World Cup roster featured six players and two coaches; the
2007 U.S. World Cup roster featured five players as well as one former player
being on the Canadian roster;the 2011
U.S. World Cup roster featured two U.S. players and one coach and there was one
player on the Canadian roster.

• Olympic Team rosters have also been
filled with Tar Heel coaches and players.The 1996 U.S. Olympic Team included seven players and two coaches; the
2000 U.S. Olympic Team included six players and two coaches; the 2004 U.S. team
included six players and two coaches; in the 2008 Olympic Games four players
competed on the U.S. squad and one player was on the Canadian roster; in 2012,
two Tar Heels competed for the U.S. and one for Canada.

• 50 Carolina players have earned
caps with the United States National Team since its founding in 1985.

• Nineteen current and former players
are listed as members of National Team player pools in 2012.This group includes six on the U.S. National
Team, two on the U23 National Team, five on the U20 National Team, two on the
U18 National Team, one on the U17 National Team, two on the Canadian National
Team and one on the New Zealand National Team.

• North Carolina featured the largest
alumnae class of players drafted by teams for the inaugural season of Women’s
Professional Soccer (WPS) in 2009 with 13. Four Tar Heels played on WPS
champion Sky Blue FC in 2009.In 2010,
four Tar Heels will were taken in the top eight picks of the WPS draft and
seven players were chosen overall.In
the 2010 season, UNC was represented by 17 players in WPS.In the 2011 season, UNC was represented by 15
players in WPS.In 2011, three Tar Heels
— Yael Averbuch, Whitney Engen and Ashlyn Harris — were members of the WPS
champion Western New York Flash.

Carolina’s National Team Coaching
Connections

•Anson Dorrance, ‘73, was the head
coach of the U.S. Women’s National Team from 1986-94.He was the head coach of the 1991 World Cup Team
which won the gold medal.

•Lauren Gregg, ‘83, was an assistant
coach with the National Team from 1987-99.She was an assistant coach at the 1991 World Cup (gold), 1995 World Cup
(bronze), 1996 Olympics (gold) and 1999 World Cup (gold).

•April Heinrichs, ‘87, was an
assistant coach with the National Team from 1995-2000 and the head coach from
2000-05.She served on staffs for the
1995 World Cup (bronze), 1996 Olympics (gold), 1999 World Cup (gold), 2000
Olympics (silver), 2003 World Cup (bronze) and 2004 Olympics (gold).

•Bill Palladino, ‘72, was an
assistant coach with the National Team from 2002-03.He served on the staff which won bronze medal
at the 2003 World Cup.

•Marcia McDermott, ’87, was an
assistant coach with the U.S. National Team.She served on the staff which won the silver medal at the 2011 World
Cup.